Post-COVID-19 complement-mediated TMA: A case report.

Systemic COVID-19 disease is associated with a variety of organ involvement in infected patients. A rarely reported complication is the induction of complement-mediated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). TMA is an extremely rare pathological condition that results in thrombosis in capillaries and small arterioles, due to an endothelial injury.

The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, neurohumoral axis and cardiovascular mortality in LURIC.

Although neurohormones and Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System (RAAS) components are important predictors of cardiovascular mortality (CVM), their importance for predicting outcomes in patients with/without RAAS-blockers and different degrees of arterial stiffness is less understood. We therefore analyzed long-term data from the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study in 3316 patients subdivided according to pulse pressure (PP) and RAAS-blocker use. Patients on RAAS-inhibition had higher renin and noradrenaline, lower aldosterone and aldosterone/renin quotient (ARQ).

Novel Prognostic Markers Derived from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Stable Chronic Coronary Artery Disease.

Background: In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), risk stratification remains a challenge. Recently, epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) has emerged as a new marker in patients with CAD. Thus, we aimed to investigate the association of CMR parameters with all-cause and cardiac mortality in patients with CAD.